Sex Drive Low? Have A Frog Smoothie

Carmen Gonzalez plucks one of the 50 frogs from the aquarium at her bus stop restaurant, bangs it against tiles to kill it and then makes two incisions along its belly and peels off the skin as if husking corn.

She's preparing frog juice, a beverage revered by some Andean cultures for having the power to cure asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and a low sex drive. A drink of so-called "Peruvian Viagra" sells for about 90 cents.

Gonzalez adds three ladles of hot, white bean broth, two generous spoonfuls of honey, raw aloe vera plant and several tablespoons of maca — an Andean root also believed to boost stamina and sex drive — into a household blender.

Then she drops the frog in.

Once strained, the result is a starchy, milkshake-like liquid that stings the throat.

At least 50 customers a day ask for steaming beer mugs of frog juice at Gonzalez's countertop-only restaurant in eastern Lima. Many treat the concoction as their morning — and afternoon — cup of coffee.

Rebeca Borja, a 53-year-old housewife and mother of five, originally from Lima's central highland city of Huancayo, where the beverage is common, said simply: "It gives you power."

[kaiyo4u]

generous spoonfuls of honey, raw aloe vera plant and several tablespoons of maca
These are most likely the sources that do the work for you... Aloe vera is known to have many healing properties. The frog is just the "icing" on the cake

[luckygirl042]

Ick, they don't even clean it or cook it. Kinda reminds me of the "frog in a blender" jokes my kids used to tell in elementary school.
Wouldn't all that bean broth give you terrible gas?

[mikealford3]

oh my goodness, the things people come up with. Maybe it tastes like chicken, that's what everybody says about frog legs. This is odd but in some places the male organ of a tiger is put into a soup for the same reason. I guess if an oyster can flip the switch why not a frog? It is kinda nasty though.

[davegf]

Once again humans show their complete and utter stupidity.

Superstition, tradition, rituals, ceremony....all garbage.

[dfrancis8]

This is very distasteful. Who would have ever thought that frogs could do that and then turn them into a drink. How do we know that this isn't bad for you on some level aren't frogs the reason why people get warts? So how could you put there blood into your own bloodstream?

[iceman_1960]

Kissing a frog is said to turn him into a Prince.

[abigail70]

This just strikes me as vile and uncivilized. How revolting to think of even kissing someone who'd put this in their mouth. Ghastly and ignorant. *shudder*

[funkiwiteboy]

RIBIT, CROAK? KREE KREE KREE!!!!

[ketemkin]

Can someone please put scientific truth to any of this for me?

[jebby_one]

Is this as bad as what Bill Clinton puts into his mouth?